Fasting and Feasting

Oxford Symposium

Fasting and Feasting

Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 1990

There was a fine range of papers submitted to this Symposium in 1990. The keynote talks were by Theodore Zeldin, Astri Riddervold, Bjorn Fjellheim and Marit Ekne Ruud (as the names may indicate, these last three authors hail from Norway). The sorts of feasts discussed by the various contributors include medieval banquets by Professor Phyllis Bober, the Bayeux Tapestry by Robert Chenciner, Early Greek Banquets by Andrew Dalby, Anatolian Feasts by Nevin Halici, Thai Feasts by Philip Iddison, The First Communion Banquet by Alicia Rios, and Table Decoration in the Netherlands by Joop Witteveen.

Contents

Fasts & Feasts – an Introduction

Theodore Zeldin

Traditional Foodways, Fast and Feast

Astri Riddervold

Three Whole Days to an End, The Norwegian Peasant Wedding Feast as a Social Mirror

Bjorn Fjellheim

From Everyday Diet to Feast Food: an Example from the Hemsedal

Marit Ekne Ruud

The Way the Contemporary Western Assyrians in the Middle East take Food during Fasts and Church Holidays